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by LorenzoLlamas 3352 days ago
What? Really? No one but one other uses TextEdit? At least among Mac users? And before that, I used NotePad on Windows.

It's notes. It doesn't need to 'sync' to your mobile device and be in a cloud somewhere. It's just some notes. What is with everyone these days sharing their whole lives on a server somewhere?

Is everyone paranoid of data loss? So what? If you lose it all, it was meant to be. Relax. You guys are supposed to be geeks and yet you are giving the NSA more data than they could ever hope to get from the average Joe.

If I see another Org-mode or wiki "note" demo on YouTube, I'll croak. Get a life. Or a girlfriend. Or go play with your children. Or visit some nature. Get away from the screeeeen.... Not even the president has to organize notes.

I saw one Org-Mode clown rant about how he had 1000+ lines of notes for various things in one file. That's not notes. That's the fringes of madness.

Delete it all. Start over.

I'm starting to think that the days of hard drive crashes were actually a good thing.

I can understand if you are a real science researcher or investigative journalist (for work). Or if you want to ensure you have copies of your tax returns or medical records.

But notes? NOTES? Grocery lists? Who makes grocery lists and needs to sync them everywhere?

Go live on a farm for a while or something. Uh, it's cheese of some kind, milk of some kind, coffee of some kind, produce, fish, meat, and avoid the candy and canned item aisles. There's your grocery list.

Do you same folks have list about what order to put on your clothes each day? (Don't answer that).